HOME ALONE Behind The Scenes (1990) Macaulay Culkin

[Music] home alone is simply my most favorite movie that I've photographed it's very entertaining and it's very hard felt of the 27 films that I've shot it's my by far my most favorite film where I went to see what was described as a little Christmas film and I had no idea what to expect and I was enchanted every kid thinks if I could just get rid of my parents it would be great and every parent once in a while tell the truth parents things I could just get rid of my kid then the flip side of those two things obviously occurs where the kid goes geez I didn't mean alone I just SP not now Mom and the parents go you know we really miss the kid Kevin The Genius of the script that John wrote is that he plays desire and fear beautifully like a little Orchestra action [Music] this house is so full of people it makes me sick when I grow up and get married I'm living alone did you hear me I'm living alone my problem in the film business is that I started with John Hughes and so he would give me a script I'd read I go Ah that's pretty good you know first draft pretty good it took about 10 years after working with John to realize just how good they were sometimes you read a script and it says you know and the bad guys get the crap beat out of him one of the brilliant things of John's writing was that he laid out the physical comedy in Exquisite detail it's so well written and it's so well executed and it's just so it's so much fun and it's so much fun for everyone and so when I first read the script I was laughing out loud it was like a stoes thing but shot by shot so he was incredibly detailed in his vision and then Chris brought it to life shot for shot the gags in the film were written u in the script and and fairly specifically at the same time there were elements that didn't exist in the original script the character of Marley I don't think existed in the original screenplay the movie originally ended with Kevin just saying uh just hung around Freeze Frame and we sort of work together to bring that emotional side to it as well as the intense sort of comedic side of it we were telling this story through a child's point of view for me I wanted to create a sense of warmth of with the picture making absolutely certain that Home Alone felt Timeless the Wardrobe the look of the picture it had to have some elegance and give it some style and Julio mot came through brilliantly it was a really exciting time for me because I was just starting out I had done a very small feature before I think that was the uh the reason uh Chris interviewed me for the job he saw a lot of stunts on my reel which I think he liked I had been working as a stunt man but this was my first big break to double a lead and on a film and be on the film for you know 3 months it was a a big break for me cuz then after home alone I got called a lot to do a lot of physical stunts as car hits and falls and everything because of the nature of the first home alone so it it got me a lot of work after that the set atmosphere on Home Alone was like none other ever I mean it was the it was like going to a a that party every day everybody was so young you know there's always music playing and Chris was hilarious and Mark Radcliffe was the ad and he's now Chris's executive producer on all these huge pictures now and we we just had a blast it was actually the first time I cast out of Chicago so I got to go to Chicago and uh and it was uh it was sort of off in Chicago on my own and it it just it was probably a bit of a confidence Builder the Kevin character I I thought it really really had to be cast well it had to be somebody that you believe could take care of himself you were afraid for him this is the furnace it's the scariest thing in the basement you should see what it does to me with the wrong kid it could have been an obnoxious child so you needed somebody that uh was just totally endearing Kevin I'm on the phone no we're not bringing the dog put in the C for the hey hey hey get off Kevin out of the room hang up the phone and make me why don't you well mol's involvement came uh from John he he had been an Uncle Buck and John said to us look I I you know you may not want to cast ma but uh take a look at him meet him and and let's you know see what you think I wanted to find this perfect kid to be in home alone and I didn't want to resort to using mcau who was an Uncle Buck I thought I want to find someone on my own John Hughes suggested uh me for the part and uh you know Chris wanted you know he met with me early on but he also wanted to meet with other people he just didn't want just take the first thing that was in front of him guys I'm meeting junk and watching rubbish you better come out and stop me after meeting 400 other kids I realized that there was no one as special or as unique or as talented as mcau the camera loved him he just was infinitely relatable to people all over the world little did I realize until I started shooting the film that not only did he have it for that film but he truly was a certified movie star mccaul's become a great actor I think his his recent work is really tremendous as 9-year-old boy how good an actor can you be so he had a beautiful face he had a great sense of comedy and he had a great teacher and Chris also action the Dork was whining about a suitcase what am I supposed to do shake his hand and say congratulations J dork I'm not an idiot oh really cut okay I'm not an idiot now guys here's what you can do Meg Hillary you guys can you can move a little faster here okay so you can say you're complet helpless everybody has to do everything for you as you're almost here okay let's try one more time guys and action I've never done this once in my whole life tough that's what Megan said what did I say you told Kev you're tough the Dork was whining about a suitcase what am I supposed to do shake his hand and say congratulations you're an idiot I'm not an idiot oh really you're so helpless Ione has to do everything for me Chris was very very good with me he knew how to get me to do the things that he wanted me to do to tell the story that he wanted to tell and that's what it was all about is just making sure that Chris was happy you know you always want to make a director happy and you know especially when you're a kid even more so I'm not sure if there's anyone else in the business who can really get performances out of children the way he can he always knew his lines he was always a professional always prepared at the same time he was a nine-year-old kid so at any given moment he would have to become a kid because you don't have that sense of responsibility that you have as an an adult but you know as a kid you get tired sometimes you tend to get distracted you tend to laugh you tend to have fun and that was all part of what made his performance so special what happened to my room Heather Tracy and sandre took it this house is so full of people it makes me sick when I grow up and get married I'm living alone we're almost there everybody was complet M was fun to work with I mean he always joked around he used to play around with the crew all the time used I think he even liked to do their jobs if he could me and Chris decided that we we would use a dollar shot yeah what should I do here okay do a dollar shot you think so yeah I don't know do you really yeah okay and what about after this I'm not sure what about a closeup good idea okay should I do that yeah okay someone got the really genius idea of putting a camera in a 9-year-old's hands but it's it's interesting to see my point of view that I don't even remember I don't remember any of this stuff you know they just kind of put a camera in my hands and I just shot away hey can I get you on the other side there's more light I can't really how do you know all this stuff okay right here right here hi hi Mac how you doing I'm doing good take my glasses off for this I don't want to give you any ideas but are we going tighter are we going tighter yes is it true that you are in the hit movie Home Alone yes it is true maau and there's one thing that I have to say um they told me that in about 15 years that they will still be showing this movie because the style of it is going to still be in fashion isn't it true that you're the brother of the famous M Cen it yes it is true you think Home Alone will be a hit movie yes absolutely because you're in it thank you moving on along we just had a great cast you know everywhere anyone from mcau Caan and uh Joe pesy and Dan they were just a great bunch of people to work with we were really lucky Joe peshy read it and saw that he could do something with it and he came on board and when he came on board everyone else kind of followed Joe pesi was someone I was a gigantic fan of from Raging Bull and Good Fellas and I thought God it would be great if Joe pesi would agree to do something like this he warmed to the R we got along when we first met and he decided to do the film which was shocking to me I didn't expect him to do it he thought that a lot of what we were asking him to do was a stretch for him which it was he handled it so well because a lot of it was you know kind of in a different playing field than what he was used to I think his hardest thing was not to cuss on [Music] camera [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: Home Alone Behind The Scenes, Home Alone, Christmas Eve, Kevin, Macaulay Culkin, Harry, Joe Pesci, Marv, Daniel Stern, Joblo Behind The Scenes

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 25 2023